XServe 2009 and 4TB disks

Hello Peeps,
Can an XServe 2009 recognize and format 4tb disks and combine as Raid 1 ?
Thanks.

Are you referring to the internal ADMs? or external disks?
If you're referring to ADMs - where you plan to take the disk out of an existing disk tray and replace it with a disks of your own, then there's been a lot of hits and misses (mostly misses) in using third-party disks. Some work, most don't due to various firmware support issues.
Off hand I'm not aware of anyone that's used 4TB disks (sucessfully or unsucessfully), so the answer might be - try it and see. I'm sure some people would be interested to hear your results.

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